The Society's printed collection, numbering about 50,000 items,
is the most comprehensive resource in northern New England in the areas of New Hampshire and New England local
history and genealogy. Highlights of the collection include:

Over 5,000 genealogies, many unpublished, of New England families.

Over 4,000 biographical works.

About 3,000 volumes of periodicals on New England history and genealogy.

Over 200 volumes of manuscript church records from all parts of New Hampshire.

Compilations, mostly unpublished, of cemetery records from over 100 New Hampshire towns.

The largest existing collection of New Hampshire newspapers from 1756 to 1900, amounting to about
800,000 pages.

A unique card index of about 30,000 "New Hampshire notables," gathered from such sources as
biographical dictionaries, local histories, and obituaries.